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Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by alluro2 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:02PM (#35933227)
I agree in principle - but why is TikTok different - why then not, for example, Instagram as well? Is the content on IG any better? Does Meta for some reason have any one individual's interests at heart more than TikTok?
Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by numpad0 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:25PM (#35933368)
The only problem with social media algorithms to anyone is that that anyone is in its line of sight through the operating end of it. It’s generally inadvisable, uncomfortable and principally incorrect to stand downrange of such devices, that’s all.
Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by CPLX on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:16PM (#35933318)
Those should be broken up for different long-standing and obvious reasons, namely that they’re clearly prohibited by existing antitrust statute. That however is a different issue to foreign state controlled media.
Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by jasmer on Saturday May 13, 2023 @07:21PM (#35933774)
It's geopolitical, and the 'content' stuff is just populism.

Insta is hosted in the US controlled by Western firms, not privy to the CCP and that's it.